----- Original Message ---- > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 3:15:54 PM > Subject: [Vo]:Scientists criticize NASA arsenic findings and also science by >press conference > > Reported in Slate, of all places. See: > > http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/ > > Some of the comments are reminiscent of cold fusion. I hope the critics do > not >go overboard. > > - Jed
Their response also sounds familiar <<"We cannot indiscriminately wade into a media forum for debate at this time," declared senior author Ronald Oremland of the U.S. Geological Survey. "If we are wrong, then other scientists should be motivated to reproduce our findings. If we are right (and I am strongly convinced that we are) our competitors will agree and help to advance our understanding of this phenomenon. I am eager for them to do so." Any discourse will have to be peer-reviewed in the same manner as our paper was, and go through a vetting process so that all discussion is properly moderated," wrote Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. "The items you are presenting do not represent the proper way to engage in a scientific discourse and we will not respond in this manner.">> Harry
